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Perhaps she was named before accurate determination of her sex could be made – like the cat called Ben Hur: “Well, we named her Ben, but then she had kittens.” Or perhaps she was named after her father, like Anne Rice was (she was born Howard Allen O’Brien, and later married Stanley Rice – well, there you go!). >:=)> I suppose she could have been named after Stanley Matthews, the legendary England football player, or after Henry Morton “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” Stanley.